The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-26

| gates for a bargain. Armed with candy, he
goes the rounds Of the city, and the child
that doesn't rush out with a bottle to barter
for his candy has never enjoyed the pleas
urable excitement of trade with him. The
rag business, which he followed for
years, has been abandoned, and he is
now bartering for the bottles that have &C
cumulated in and around the houses of the
! city. 1t matters not how valuable bottle
may be, the child of the house will lay it
away for trade when Uncle Billy comes
| around. AS soon as his song is borne TO the
ears of the child, there is rush for the
! boarded bottle, and Off for the gate he
rIshes, when the trade is quickly effected
for the coveted candy on the one hand and
the priced bottle on the other.
A terrible murder was committed at the
! yards of the Chattahoocnee Brick Company,
near Atlanta, at about 1870 O'Clock Sunday
afternoon. A convict named Charley
! SCHUYLER cut the throat of Dick Lester, fell
! low convict who died within four minutes
after the assault. Both men are negroes.
! Lester, who was about rs years old, was
! sent up from Oconee county, about five
| years ago, to serve a fifteen-year sentence
/ for horse stealing. Schuler. who is about
| the same age, is q Lawrence county con
Wet, having been sent up for burglary. He
| had served about ten years on fifteen year
| sentence Both men bore good regulations
! camp, and neither has ever been regarded as
| particularly quarrelsome. Lester was re-
! garded as a man very easy to get along
! with, and Schuler, while he did not bear
! quite so good reputation, was never re-
garded as particularly pugnaciOus. The
crime was due to dispute over cards.
At Lumpkin Friday about shutdown a
serious difficulty occurred on a plantation
| three miles from town. Walter Harris has
| h.Nrr ,aaln ~ tlx. 20 rot
him. He told the boy TO bring him a bucket
of water The boy was rather slow about
| going, and Harris pushed him toward the
| door and kicked him. The boy reported it
to his sister, and she went to sec Mr.. Har-
! ris, and told him that nobody could kick
John where she was Harris then slapped
her face, and the boys father, Anderson
| Trotman, seeing the difficulty, came up.
Upon hearing the cause Of the trouble, he
hit Harris on the head with a stick or a
piece of fence rail, hurting him pretty
badly Harris then jerked out his knife and
cut the negro Anderson on his left arm near
the shoulder, severing all the muscles and
came near cutting the bronchial artery.
The negro commenced running, when Har
ris seized a gun which the negro boy
John had, and Shot Anderson in the back of
the head and neck. DIR. Miller was called
to see him and found the wound serious.
While little j. ID. O'IIearn was strolling
down near the branch just north of Thorn
asville he discovered a large snake under a
log. He at once tried to capture the snake,
but it escaped. Just then he saw two more,
and he grabbed one of them back of the
neck and then drew its tail up and held it
in the same hand and proceeded to catch the
other with the other hand. In doing this
he got bit on the hand, and deliberately
stopped and sucked the poison from the
wound and then captured the snake as at
first attempted. Getting this snakes head
and tail in one hand, just as he had the
other, he returned home, stopping several
times on the way to show several parties he
met how he could make the snakes fight by
putting their heads together. After play
ing with them rs long as he wanted to, he
took them home and placed them in box.
Mr.. Fudge, his brotheI-in-law, having found
out about them, had the snakes killed -.
D., y as the boy is commonly called, is boy
about IA years old. The bite of the snake,
although it was poisonous mOccasin, never
even made sore. He says he is not afraid
of snakes and catches them just for fun.
Several digests for 1887 were received
Saturday by the Comptroller-gener Hall
county's digest shows So, 900, 6l5 worth of
| taxable property, an increase of sac, 404.
Hall county adjoins Gwinnett county on
one side where for the past three years the
amount of taxable property has been stead
| lily decreasing, until within three years it
has aggregated more than $4,000. The
reason for this decrease as given by the re
ceiverS of tax returns for Gwinuett is that
the value of land is steadily decreasing, but
in Hall county, adjoining, no such decrease
Is manifested. Returns were also received
from Scriven, GlasScock and johnson coun-
ties. Scriven countys digest shows taxable
| property TO the value of 81 ,366, 3l6, an
| increase over the returns for 1886 of 81 ,543
/ o 81.
| property to the amount of $433, 1888, de-
crease over that of the last year of 81 800
| Johnson county makes one of the best
showings that has been received so far
Tine value of the taxable property in the
county is 1878 $50, an increase of S70,Sl6,
over 1886. If all the counties in the State
will show the same proportion i'll the values
of taxable property, the aggregate amount
| of taxable property in the State will be
very largely increased.
| Last week Paul f. Long, of Milton, went
| to Tumlin's farm in search Of relics. He
| was gone four days, and ON his return spread
| out a lot of articles that were once used by
| the mound-builders, a race of whom little
Is known History gives no account of
| them, and all that is known of them is
| learned from the vessels, tools, images, ETC.
once used by them and found now in the
mounds erected by Them The North Ameri-
can Indians knew nothing about them; the
| Indians built no mounds, neither did they
| know who did build them. They had no
tradition of their origin. 1t is supposed
that the mounds now found were erected to
| mark the graves of the chiefs of n now eX-
! tinct race, and that their earthly goods were
| buried with them. All their implements
Were made of stone, and their cook vessels
of clay. Mr.. Long hada variety of articles
| Among them was IA stone mortar and pestle
| used TO beat up corn, piece of
| white marble about eight inches
across, two inches thick, and was concavo-
concave. Mr.. Long said this was called a
'chunkey stone, and was probably used as
target 1t had almost hatful of arrow
and spear heads all made of flint and quite
| sharp on the sides and end. Also stone
| knives used to flesh hides, and TO cut the
| bark off of trees. Several stone anvils were
| in the collection; also round granite balls
about the size now used by school boys, and
supposed to have been used to play some
kind of game. He had two small pots of
clay"burned very hard, one holding about
| gill the other about a quart There was
| only one piece of metal i'll the lot; this was
| tomahawk or ak made of iron, about
| three inches long and something over an
| inch wide. The oldest looking and highest
| priced article in the lot were two hair pins
made of sea shell; one seven inches long, the
other five inches. They were hoary with
age and will hardly bear handling, crumb-
! ling off at the slightest touch They were